COURSE INFORMATION FOR PHL-1002
ETHICS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course examines moral principles and moral issues. The course focuses on the nature and ground of moral obligation. It introduces major ethical systems and tests those against selected contemporary moral problems.
3 credit hours
Guidelines for Applied Ethics Paper
Power Point on Reasoning Fallacies Power Point on Evaluating Statistical Data Power Point on Loaded Language
Recommended Reading: Ethical Reasoning
| Martha C. Nussbaum | Poetic Justice | 1995 |
| Marvin T. Brown | The Ethical Process | 1996, 2003 |
| Anthony Weston | A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox | 2001, 2007 |
| Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl | The Ethics Toolkit | 2007 |
| Anthony Weston | Creative Problem-Solving in Ethics | 2007 |
| J. D. Trout | The Empathy Gap (re-titled Why Empathy Matters for paperback) | 2009 |
Recommended Reading: Ethical Theory
| Aristotle | Nichomachean Ethics | c.300 BCE |
| Immanuel Kant | Lectures on Ethics | 1775-80 |
| Soren Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling | 1843 |
| John Stuart Mill | Utilitarianism | 1861 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil | 1886 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | On the Genealogy of Morals | 1887 |
| G. E. Moore | Ethics | 1915 |
| W. D. Ross | The Right and the Good | 1930 |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | An Interpretation of Christian Ethics | 1935 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Ethics of Ambiguity | 1948 |
| J. J. C. Smart & Bernard Williams | Utilitarianism: For and Against | 1973 |
| Peter Singer | Practical Ethics | 1979, 1993 |
| Richard Taylor | Ethics, Faith and Reason | 1985 |
| John Paul II | Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) | 1995 |
| Peter Singer | How Are We to Live? | 1995 |
| Judith Jarvis Thomson & Gilbert Harman | Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivism | 1996 |
| Thomas L. Carson & Paul K. Moser, editors | Morality and the Good Life | 1997 |
| Paul K. Moser & Thomas L. Carson, editors | Moral Relativism | 2001 |
Recommended Readings: Skepticism about Ethics
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Daybreak | 1881 |
| Bernard Williams | Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy | 1985 |
| John D. Caputo | Against Ethics | 1993 |
| James Morrow | The Philosopher's Apprentice | 2008 |
Recommended Readings: Applied Ethical Issues
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts | 1750 |
| Bertrand Russell | Marriage and Morals | 1929 |
| Bertrand Russell | The Conquest of Happiness | 1930 |
| Albert Camus | Reflections on the Guillotine | 1957 |
| Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr. & Herbert Marcuse | A Critique of Pure Tolerance | 1965 |
| Peter Singer | Animal Liberation | 1975, 1990 |
| Jonathan Glover | Causing Death and Saving Lives | 1977 |
| Jim Mason & Peter Singer | Animal Factories | 1980 |
| Michael Bayles | Reproductive Ethics | 1984 |
| James Rachels | The End of Life | 1986 |
| Christine Overall | Ethics and Human Reproduction | 1987 |
| Richard D. Mohr | Gays/Justice | 1988 |
| Susan Sherwin | No Longer Patient | 1992 |
| Richard D. Mohr | A More Perfect Union | 1994 |
| Jesse Jackson | Legal Lynching | 1996 |
| Louis P. Pojman & Robert Westmoreland, editors | Equality | 1997 |
| Gregory E. Pence | Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? | 1998 |
| Jeffrey H. Reiman & Louis P. Pojman | The Death Penalty | 1998 |
| Alastiar MacIntyre | Dependent Rational Animals | 1999 |
| Peter Singer | Unsanctifying Human Life | 1999 |
| Thomas S. Szasz | Fatal Freedom | 1999 |
| Michael Warner | The Trouble with Normal | 1999 |
| Robert Jay Lifton & Greg Mitchell | Who Owns Death? | 2000 |
| Kory Schaff, editor | Philosophy and the Problems of Work | 2001 |
| Josh Sugarman | Every Handgun is Aimed at You | 2001 |
| Alan G. Soble | Pornography, Sex and Feminism | 2002 |
| Jennifer A. Parks | No Place Like Home? | 2003 |
| John Harris | On Cloning | 2004 |
| Jonathan Rauch | Gay Marriage | 2004 |
| Jerold L. Waltman | The Case for the Living Wage | 2004 |
| David G. Myers & Letha Dawson Scanzoni | What God Has Joined Together? | 2005 |
| Rudolph J. Gerber & John M. Johnson | The Top Ten Death Penalty Myths | 2007 |
| Anthony Coady & Igor Primoratz, editors | Military Ethics | 2008 |
Recommended Readings: Social/Political Philosophy
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Discourse on the Origin of Inequality | 1755 |
| Immanuel Kant | Perpetual Peace | 1795 |
| John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | 1859 |
| Aime Cesaire | Discourse on Colonialism | 1955 |
| H. L. A. Hart | Law, Liberty, and Morality | 1963 |
| Joel Feinberg | Social Philosophy | 1973 |
| Peter Singer | Democracy and Disobedience | 1973 |
| Michael Walzer | Just and Unjust Wars | 1977, 2000 |
| Jeffrey Reiman | The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison | 1979, 2007 |
| Joel Feinberg | Offense to Others | 1985 |
| Susan Moller Okin | Justice, Gender, and the Family | 1989 |
| Iris Marion Young | Justice and the Politics of Difference | 1990 |
| William A. Galston | Liberal Purposes | 1991 |
| Elizabeth Smith & H. Gene Blocker, editors | Applied Social and Political Philosophy | 1994 |
| Will Kymlicka | Multicultural Citizenship | 1995 |
| Claudia Card | The Unnatural Lottery | 1996 |
| Judith P. Butler | Excitable Speech | 1997 |
| Charles W. Mills | The Racial Contract | 1997 |
| Jonathan Glover | Humanity | 1999 |
| Susan Moller Okin et al | Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? | 1999 |
| Iris Marion Young | Inclusion and Democracy | 2000 |
| Michael Ignatieff et al | Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry | 2001 |
| Peter Singer | One World | 2002 |
| Louis P. Pojman | Global Political Philosophy | 2003 |
| Michael Ignatieff | The Lesser Evil | 2004 |
| Cornel West | Democracy Matters | 2004 |
| Richard J. Bernstein | The Abuse of Evil | 2005 |
| Gregory A. Boyd | The Myth of a Christian Nation | 2005 |
| Bill Ong Hing | Deporting Our Souls | 2006 |
| Martha C. Nussbaum | Liberty of Conscience | 2008 |
last updated 12/16/09